I was wondering if any on here have successfully used bubbles for structuring seller financed notes. The concept is to get a small balloon payment for less than the full amount of what is owed on the note to meet the...

I have watched several discussions, including David Greene's video, around the recent lawsuit against NAR and RE brokerages. Learned a lot but there is one thing I just don't understand. If we look at the numbers, the...

I have been renting a house for the past 7 years in LA and now sadly the family wants to move back in. I figured it's time to buy my own place, especially with rents so high, but timing couldn't be worse. Every home h...

How do we create housing that is affordable for the existing citizens of Birmingham and still make a profit? The current Revitalization is setting market rates far out of reach of most all Birmingham citizens with hou...

That title caught your eye, didn't it?I have 4 tenants in this property.So tenant A & B saying tenant C is smoking pot in the house (I've already given her a warning based on prior rumors). Also, tenant B says ten...

If this is the wrong place for this, please remove it.Recently, I have seen a lot of threads/posts come up on social media (I know, not very reliable or the truth) about how bad/hated STR is for local neighborhoods. W...

Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...

How many times have we seen a post on Bigger Pockets with a new investor complaining that they can't find any reputable general contractors to rehab their houses? Often times, these investors are looking for general c...

Hey guys, I would love to hear some opinions on my personal finances. I'm a 23 year old fireman in Texas. I make a decent salary and my wife is able to stay home with our two kids. We are able to live confortably beca...

We have been discussing this at my office all day. I don't know much as this point, but here's what I know: "Fannie Mae is tightening the underwriting criteria for second homes and investment properties, the governmen...